Transfers, 2024-25 season

[Dr Gloom 24831]

40 minutes ago, ewerk said:

It makes zero difference to PSR how the payments are structured.

why structure it that way then? Is it not about bumping payments into the following financial year or something so there’s more headroom this window?

Edited 11 hours ago by Dr Gloom

[Dr Gloom 24831]

Genuine question. This isn’t the week I’m finally getting the hang of this accountancy lark

[Dr Gloom 24831]

Amortisation wankers 

 

Edited 11 hours ago by Dr Gloom

[Gemmill 53983]

6 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Genuine question. This isn’t the week I’m finally getting the hang of this accountancy lark

 

If we buy him for £50m on a 5 year contract, the PSR effect is £10m per year. 

 

We could structure the payments as £1 today and the rest 5 years today, but it wouldn't matter because amortisation is done on a straight line basis. 

[ewerk 35102]

15 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

Genuine question. This isn’t the week I’m finally getting the hang of this accountancy lark

Most likely because of cash flow rather than PSR. Though given the Saudis aren’t short of a pound or two I don’t know why we aren’t offering clubs money up front in order to gain an advantage.

[Dr Gloom 24831]

2 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Most likely because of cash flow rather than PSR. Though given the Saudis aren’t short of a pound or two I don’t know why we aren’t offering clubs money up front in order to gain an advantage.

isn’t that connected to PSR/APT though? The Saudis aren’t allowed to just pump their billions into the club either through the ownership or related parties so delaying the payments means we have more cash to spend this window? 
 

Forgive my rudimentary understanding of all this. I fucking hate this craic tbh

[Gemmill 53983]

Aye we need to operate as a standalone business, so managing cash flow is important. If we're getting cash injections from the Saudis, I guess they would have to be treated as loans, which now attract interest for PSR following the latest rule changes. 

 

They could inject cash as equity but I assume that would dilute the other shareholders. 

 

Also, we struggle to move quickly on transfers anyway, the last thing we want is to layer this on top.

[Ayatollah Hermione 15538]

As was mentioned on here the other day, the stadium is going to be massive from a commercial POV. A huge outlay but, if you do it right, it’ll be making money every day. Which makes the constant delays in the announcement even more frustrating 

[Duffman 11]

Will Elanga help us against all the teams playing with a low block against us? Think I’d rather see if Eddie is capable of turning Sancho back to his dortmund best. 

[ewerk 35102]

15 minutes ago, Duffman said:

Think I’d rather see if Eddie is capable of turning Sancho back to his dortmund best. 

I can think of 300,000 reasons a week as to why that’s a bad idea.

[Chaser 1510]

16 minutes ago, Duffman said:

Will Elanga help us against all the teams playing with a low block against us? Think I’d rather see if Eddie is capable of turning Sancho back to his dortmund best. 

If a team is willing to pay £5m not to sign him, then we stay clear. 

[Dazzler 13253]

13 minutes ago, Chaser said:

If a team is willing to pay £5m not to sign him, then we stay clear. 

If Chelsea knock back a winger, when they have signed all the wingers then it’s probs not worth looking at it.

[PaddockLad 20283]

We sign Harvey Elliot for the job description as outlined above ^ 

[Ayatollah Hermione 15538]

Elliott can’t finish 90 minutes and is only being talked about because he scored a couple of goals against some kids. No thanks

[Dr Gloom 24831]

Elliot looks a good technical player to me. Srill very young and I imagine Howe could massively improve him too. I think he’d be a good buy if one of willock or Sean leave plus he can cover loads of postions 

[Gemmill 53983]